Word: conquests
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Stumbling over uncounted children the names of whom their Italian father could not recall, we interviewed one family around the kitchen stove. They gladly posed for pictures and proudly explained sympathy for the union. The students left with the feeling of conquest and another convert chalked up to their credit...
...Leverett defense tightened as the game settled down to a tug-of-war contest, both teams see-sawing back and forth as the afternoon were on. As the final whistle blew, no further score had been made and the Deacons walked off the field with a 6 to 0 conquest...
...week's end revolutionaries and German troops were fighting pitched battles for possession of three Yugoslav towns. Both Germany and Italy rushed fresh troops for the conquest of a country which, theoretically, was already conquered...
...There is not the slightest danger that Peru "might solve the boundary dispute by swallowing the smaller fellow next door." Peru has been more than patient before the repeated advances and offenses of Ecuador, and has declared in every possible way that it has no design of conquest...
...conquering Spaniards did not blood-bathe the heathen Mexicans as the Inquisition destroyed heretics in Spain. Instead, Crown & Church at first tried to make good Christians and Spanish citizens out of them. Twenty of the 190 coats-of-arms granted during the conquest of Mexico and South America were given to Indians, and Spaniards often married Indian "princesses" under the delusion that the Aztec nobility, like that of Europe, was hereditary (actually it was earned). As great a blow to the Aztecs as the Spanish conquest was the English victory over the Armada. Mexican communication with the Crown & Church...